Erika Howsare

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Sweet success

Tiffany Rosales finds her bliss making wedding cakes

Variation on a theme

Stew and Alyce Pollock wanted an architect with environmental cred, but that wasn’t the only thing that drew them to...

Fine specimens

Get to know Charlottesville’s six newly protected trees

Scaling down

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to reassess many things about our lives, including how we celebrate milestones...

Weaving memories

When The Wool Factory opened its doors to the public last July, it brought a new kind of venue to the Charlottesville...

Ingredients of spring

Spring is here, and so are spring ingredients. Hooray for food that’s never seen the inside of a can! Hooray for...

A lyrical world

In one of Fernando Valverde’s poems, “Ellis Island,” he imagines would-be immigrants to the United States, gathering...

Into the future

A house built just before World War II might be replete with period charm, but it’s not necessarily geared toward the...

Working with the givens

When Kelley and Steve Sobell bought their house at Bundoran Farm in 2017, they took on a project that was somewhere...

The art of subtraction

The new tasting room and event space of Potter’s Craft Cider is not “new” at all; it’s a building layered with...